The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-28
THE e1ELs AL MARRIED.
A Theatrical Troupe Quickly Dis
banded In the Black Hills.

| banded In the Black hills.
SIDNEY, Nsb., January 1.-Two or
three weeks ago AleckB osustow, we'll
known manager of theatrical en-
teFprises in The west, went into the
Black Hills country with "a small
troupe of variety performers, most
of the members Of which were
young women He arrived here last
night from the Hills with more money
than he knew what to do with, and an
nounced that be would organize an
other company and go back there as
soon as possible. As the attractions
that he had with him month ago are
not to,be seen IN the vicinity, he was
asked what had become OF them
1.-THE women are all up I'D t5e hills" he
replied, every one of them. That's the
beauty of the thing. We opened first at
Rapid City, and had a tremendous
house. Everybody in town was there
After the. show the audience marched
ir. bodylto our hotel and serenaded US.
The next night the same crowd was
there, and when the performance was
over. they escorted US to the tavern.
I his thing was continued until the end
OF toe engagem aud when we get
boys in Rapia, followed alter and
attended the opening performance
there. Some of them remained
until we got through there and accom-
panied us to Dead GOOD, many OF the
lead City lads going over, too. At
0eadwood we had some trouble. One
fzmy best dancers had been pursued
by a Rapid City man and had con-
sented to marry him. He was deter
mined to have her leave the company
at once, and when L vas laboriug with
her the others came and said that they
also had offers which they were think
ing OF accepting. l saw that there was
nothing but ruin ahead of me unless Z
could head off this thing. and so l told
the girls that while they were looking.
out for themselves they should not
forge6 me. [ had brought them into
the promised land, and l was deserving
OF considerate treatment. You see 1
bad always abEeated my people prettyY
decent, and they felt fTiepdlv towards
me. Ny proposition was that the girls
who wanted to accept the offers Of mar
riage should do so but that they should
inform their admirers that they were
under contract with me for one year,
and that these contracts could be broken
only by thepGynent of forfeit of 81 0.
They agreed to this. and l insisted on
nothing but that they should hang to-
gether and go with me to Sturgis, where
We would disband. "a -EFT ~
4 with this un(l erstah ding We setOut
/ for Sturgis. The soy5'frO1h Rapid City,
| Lead City and DeadwOodl followed us,
and at Sturgis had the best houses
OF the Season, q beat anything you
/ egersaW.. | was on thetdoor, and they
] c showed Il n M
| get away with them. After thr, nights
OF this sort OF thiDg we disbanded every
/ ladyin tue company vas married, and
l got $3.50 for each one. of them. as to
one of them, J guess she was the pretti-
est one, / cOu.d have sod her release
half a dozen times over. One man
finally did pay me the amount on the
condition that if he didn't get her |
would refund it. She married him,
believe, and I presume l will have t.
settle with the other fellow when I go
back. Yes; I'm going back, you bet.
Just as soon as | can get another COM
paEy together [ viii try it sgan, No.
I'm not exactly IN the matrimonial
agency business, but it does look
( that waV q little for a fact On
the next trip l intend to put it into the
contract that anybody leaving the COM
pany before the end Of the engage ment
shall forfeit $3.50. In this way I shall
make sure of making a little money. 1t
was nothing but sheer good nature on
the part of the girls that enabled me 10.
lay up cent on this trip. My conn any
would have melted away like snow
bank in Jul If the women hadL's been
inclined to do the fair thing by me.
Inc love making of these fellows is
absolutely irresistible. never saw any
thing like it. It fatters a woman
half to Geath. They hang
around and look at her, and offer
to do all sorts of favors for her. One OF
my ladies went to the postofhce IN
Sturgis and received a couple of news
papers from Rapid City containing.
some favorable mention of her per-
Torrance, and when she started to re-
! tGrn to the hotel three or four chaps
ohered to carry them for her, one OF
them sayins as he, with greater bold
ness than the rest, seized the papers,
that no woman don't carry no freight
in thistowh.' I'm going back there,
you bet"
He Wanted the Picture or Casr.